Tafseer of The Star · An-Najm · 53:61
While you are proudly sporting?
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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, saying: Muḥammad ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Qatāda, on the authority of ʿIkrima, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His word sāmidūn: he said: that is singing. When they heard the Qurʾān, they would start singing and playing. It is a word from the language of the people of Yemen; the Yemeni says "usmud" ("sing for us").
ʿAlī related to me, saying: Abū Ṣāliḥ related to us, saying: Muʿāwiya related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His word sāmidūn: he says: the heedless (those immersed in amusement).
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd related to me, saying: my father related to me, saying: my uncle related to me, saying: my father related to me, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His word wa-antum sāmidūn: he says: the heedless.
Ibn Bashshār related to us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī related to us, saying: Sufyān related to us, on the authority of his father, on the authority of ʿIkrima, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, he said: it is Yemeni: "usmud", "sing for us".
Abū Kurayb related to us, saying: al-Ashjaʿī related to us, on the authority of Sufyān, on the authority of his father, on the authority of ʿIkrima, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, he said: it is singing, and it is Yemeni; they say: "usmud lanā", "sing for us".
He said: ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ashjaʿī related to us, on the authority of Sufyān, on the authority of Ḥakīm ibn al-Daylam, on the authority of al-Ḍaḥḥāk, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning wa-antum sāmidūn, he said: they used to pass arrogantly by the Prophet ﷺ. Have you not seen the stallion camel among the camels, in heat and with its head raised?
Ibn Bashshār related to us, saying: Ibn Abī ʿAdī related to us, on the authority of Saʿīd, on the authority of Qatāda, on the authority of al-Ḥasan, concerning His word wa-antum sāmidūn: he said: the heedless.
Abū Kurayb related to us, saying: Ibn ʿUyayna related to us, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning wa-antum sāmidūn: he said: they used to pass by the Prophet ﷺ angry and with their noses turned up (mubarṭimīn). And ʿIkrima said: it is singing in Ḥimyaritic.
He said: al-Ashjaʿī and Wakīʿ related to us, on the authority of Sufyān, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, he said: it is al-barṭama (putting on an angry, sullen expression).
Ibn Bashshār related to us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to us, saying: Sufyān related to us, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning His word wa-antum sāmidūn: he said: al-barṭama.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: ʿĪsā related to us; and al-Ḥārith related to me, saying: al-Ḥasan related to us, saying: Warqāʾ related to us — both — on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning His word wa-antum sāmidūn: he said: al-barṭama.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: ʿĪsā related to us, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of ʿIkrima, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, he said: the sāmidūn are those who sing in Ḥimyaritic.
Al-Ḥārith related to me, saying: al-Ḥasan related to us, saying: Warqāʾ related to us, Ibn Abī Najīḥ related to us, on the authority of Mujāhid, he said: ʿIkrima used to say: the sāmidūn sing in Ḥimyaritic — without Ibn ʿAbbās appearing in it.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His word sāmidūn: that is, the heedless.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, saying: Ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His word sāmidūn: he said: the heedless.
It was related to me on the authority of al-Ḥusayn, saying: I heard Abū Muʿādh say: ʿUbayd informed us, saying: I heard al-Ḍaḥḥāk say concerning His word wa-antum sāmidūn: al-sumūd is amusement and play.
Ḥumayd ibn Masʿada related to us, saying: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ related to us, saying: Sufyān ibn Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Fiṭr, on the authority of Abū Khālid al-Wālibī, on the authority of ʿAlī — may Allah be pleased with him — he said: he saw them standing, waiting for the imam, and said: What is it with you that you are sāmidūn (standing upright waiting)?
Ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz related to me, they said: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, on the authority of ʿImrān ibn Zāʾida ibn Nashīṭ, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Abū Khālid, he said: ʿAlī — may Allah be pleased with him — came to us while we were standing, and said: How is it that I see you sāmidīn (standing upright waiting)?
He said: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: Sufyān informed us, on the authority of Maṭar, on the authority of Zāʾida, on the authority of Abū Khālid, with the same.
Ibn Bashshār related to us, saying: Ibn Abī ʿAdī related to us, on the authority of Saʿīd, on the authority of Abū Maʿshar, on the authority of Ibrāhīm, concerning His word wa-antum sāmidūn: he said: the people's standing upright before the imam comes.
Ibn Bashshār related to us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to us, saying: Sufyān related to us, on the authority of Manṣūr, on the authority of ʿImrān al-Khayyāṭ, on the authority of Ibrāhīm, concerning the people who wait for the prayer standing; he said: they used to say: that is al-sumūd.
Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Mihrān related to us, on the authority of Abū Jaʿfar, on the authority of Layth and al-ʿAzramī, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning wa-antum sāmidūn: he said: al-barṭama.
Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Mihrān related to us, on the authority of Sufyān, on the authority of his father, on the authority of ʿIkrima, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning wa-antum sāmidūn: he said: singing in Yemeni: "usmud lanā", "sing for us".
Yūnus related to us, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said concerning His word wa-antum sāmidūn: he said: the sāmid is the heedless one.
Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Jarīr related to us, on the authority of Manṣūr, on the authority of Ibrāhīm, he said: they considered it reprehensible to stand up when the muezzin pronounced the iqāma for the prayer while the imam was not yet among them, and they considered it reprehensible to wait for him standing; and they used to say: that is al-sumūd, or it derives from al-sumūd.
